The Problem of Kingship in Shakespeare’S History Plays

• Authors: Tatjana Dumitrašković
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Elizabethan England was a state of repression and Shakespeare could not write his plays freely and he could not oppose Elizabeth and her government openly. So he had to use allegory and every one of his plays is an act of rebellion. This paper deals with Shakespeare’s history plays which are symbols of resistance to the rule of force and war politics, and that message is implicit in the way of presenting kings.

Keywords

EN

history plays; kings; politics; power; Shakespeare

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 78-85

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Tatjana Dumitrašković

• Teachers’ Training Faculty, Bijeljina

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0010